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FIRP panel draft results available online for comment- FIRP was to examine TCP vs OSI
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Fri Jan 14 18:53:32 1994
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 14:37:02 -0800 (PST)
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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 16:44:19 -0500 (EST)
>From: nakassis@osi.ncsl.nist.gov (Tassos Nakassis)
Subject: Availability of the FIRP report
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This is to let you know that the Draft Report of the Federal
Internetworking Requirements Panel is
available at (and from) NIST. The text that follows includes:
1) a copy of the text NIST submitted to the Federal Register
(published on 1/11/94); this text was drafted about a
month ago and I would encourage you to read the subsequent
text for clarifications.
2) additional information on how to get the document
3) additional information on how to submit comments
4) NOTES (including correction of a typo in the Register)
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1) The text that appeared in the Federal Register
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket No. 931246-3346]
REVIEW OF DRAFT REPORT OF THE
FEDERAL INTERNETWORKING REQUIREMENTS PANEL (FIRP)
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to announce the
availability, after January 14, 1994, of the draft report of the
Federal Internetworking Requirements Panel (FIRP). This panel was
named by NIST to review open systems network requirements and to
recommend policies on the use of networking standards by the
Federal government. Organized in cooperation with the
Federal Networking Council and the Federal Information Resources
Management Policy Council, the FIRP has been considering issues
related to interoperability requirements, security, ease of
use, national and international connectivity, and standards
maintenance for the Internet Protocol Suite (IPS), Open Systems
Interconnection (OSI) specifications, and proprietary networking
protocols.
Prior to submitting its final report to NIST, the FIRP solicits the
views of industry, the public, and Federal, State and local
governments on the draft report. The purpose of this notice is to
solicit such views.
The draft report will be available after January 14, 1994 and can
be obtained in any of the following ways:
Anonymous file transfer can be achieved through FTP, FTAM and
Gopher. Electronic files are named draft-firp-report.asc and
reportO.fir. For anonymous FTP:
1. ftp to osi.ncsl.nist.gov (129.6.48.100)
2. respond to the "login:" prompt with user name "anonymous"
(do not type the quotes)
3. respond to the "password:" prompt with your E-mail address.
4. you are now logged in. Use "cd" to change directory to
./pub/firp. Use "ls" or "dir" to get directory listings.
Use "get" to transfer a file.
For anonymous FTAM:
Paddr =
{1,1,1,47:0005:80:005A00:0000:0001:E137:080020079EFC:00}
userid = anon, no password, realstore = unix
The corresponding "ISODE isoentities" entry is:
osi.ncsl.nist.gov filestore NULL \
#1/#1/#1/NS+47000580005a0000000001e137080020079efc00
Questions regarding these services should be sent via SMTP mail to
staff@osi.ncsl.nist.gov. An electronic mail request for the draft
report may be sent to: firp-draft@osi.ncsl.nist.gov.
Paper copies of the draft report are available from Joan Wyrwa,
Technology Building, Room B217, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899;
telephone: (301) 975-3643; facsimile: (301) 590-0932.
DATES: Comments on the draft report must be received on or before
February 18, 1994.
ADDRESSES: Written comments concerning the draft report should be
sent to: Anastase Nakassis; Acting Chief, Systems and Network
Architecture Division; ATTN: Draft Report of FIRP; Technology
Building, Room B217; National Institute of Standards and
Technology; Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Comments may also be sent by
electronic mail to firp-comments@osi.ncsl.nist.gov. Please limit
written comments to five printed pages or less.
Electronic comments should not exceed five pages when printed.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anastase Nakassis, National
Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899,
telephone: (301) 975-3632. E-mail: firp.staff@osi.nscl.nist.gov.
************** END OF FEDERAL REGISTER TEXT *********************
2) Additional information on how to get the document
2.1 E-mail copies of the report (or its executive summary) can
also be obtained as follows:
Send e-mail to mail-server@osi.ncsl.nist.gov with
the following message (the Subject field is ignored):
FILE filename
where filename is one of the following filenames:
/pub/firp/draft-firp-report.asc
(if the full report is desired) or
/pub/firp/draft-firp-summary.asc for the executive summary.
2.2) Additional files
Formatted versions of the report and of its executive summary are
available through anonymous file transfer. These files have the
following suffixes:
doc for Microsoft Word for Windows, 2.0c
ps for PostScript
rtf for Rich Text Format
wp for Word Perfect 5.1
Consult file "index" (in /pub/firp) for additional information.
3) Submission of comments
An additional mail address is provided for those who would like
to see their comments archived in a publicly available file.
Comments sent to firp-comments-public@osi.ncsl.nist.gov will be
archived in the in the /pub/firp directory under the file name
firp-public-comments.asc (and firp-pc0.txt for those requiring
shorter file names). This file can be obtained in the same
electronic fashion as described above (ftp or mail as in 2.1
with filename=firp-public-comments.asc). Comments sent to
firp-comments@osi.ncsl.nist.gov will not appear in this file.
All submitted comments will be forwarded to the panel (FIRP).
NOTES: The pagination of the printed report depends on the
fonts and printer used. It is highly recommended that
references to the report use section and subsection numbers
(rather than page numbers) to identify the referenced text.
In the same vein, the references to pages that appear in the
table of contents hold true for the report that the editor
generated and may not correspond to the pages you will
print.
The report is between 40 and 50+ pages long (the flat ascii
file is about 150K long and the postscript version about
450K). The size of formatted versions varies between 150K
and 200K. The size of the executive summary varies between
15K (ascii) and 45k (PS).
Mail address firp-staff has been created as an alias for
firp.staff and either address can be used. THE CORRECT
ADDRESS is firp-staff@osi.ncsl.nist.gov. CLEARLY, the
"nscl" in the Federal Register notice is a TYPOGRAPHICAL
ERROR.
NIST personnel will read messages sent to firp-draft and
will respond to requests. This mailbox has been established
for accommodating requests that require human intervention
(chiefly, e-mail requests for paper copies).
